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Pornography on the Internet Submission to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Inquiry into the harm being done to Australian children through access to pornography on the internet Australian Psychological Society APS contact: Heather Gridley, Manager, Public Interest Susie Burke, Senior Psychologist, Public Interest Phone: (03) 8662 3300 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] March 2016 The Australian Psychological Society (APS) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee. The APS is well placed to contribute to this consultation, with members who have research and clinical expertise in the effects of pornography on young people and relationships. APS psychologists also offer expertise in the broader societal effects of representations of sex, sexuality, violence and online exposure and access to pornography, as well as changing social mores, particularly concerning sexual practices which may emanate from the impact of pornography. On related topics, the APS made a submission to the Senate inquiry into sexualisation in 2008, and has developed resources for parents and made many submissions to related inquiries around online safety, with particular reference to young people. Psychologists and other mental health professionals have long recognised the role pornography has played in the sexualisation of women and girls and its potential harmful effects on children and young people. However with the extraordinary proliferation of pornography on the internet, and the increasingly violent nature of much pornographic content, serious concerns are now emerging within and beyond psychology about the impact on young people’s expectations of sex, sexuality and relationships, increases in sexual violence amongst children and young people, as well as concerning general societal effects like an increase in sexism, increased rates of sexual harassment and sexual violence, and negative impacts on how men regard women. The APS supports this Inquiry and other actions to address and reduce the impact of pornography on young people, as well as on society in general. Summary of Recommendations The APS recommends: Zero tolerance for pornography for under 12 year-olds. Parents and schools need to play an active role in monitoring and boundary setting for young people in relation to cyber safety, but this must be done within the context of trusting and respectful relationships. Quality, inclusive and relationally-based sex education to be provided to all young people to ensure they are able to effectively and actively critique what is displayed in porn. School based strategies are recommended to deliver such education. This must go beyond the mechanistic approach (reproduction, sexual diseases) and also talk about expectations, norms, relationship education, and the role of pornography (among other factors) in sexual behaviours and decisions. Sexual health education for parents is required to assist them to navigate conversations about sex and porn, and to empower families to resist pornography’s influence, such as assisting young people to respond to peer pressure to watch porn or to respond assertively when a partner initiates porn- inspired sex. 2 APS Submission into the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Inquiry into the harm being done to Australian children through access to pornography on the internet Any response to reducing harmful impacts of pornography on children involves a range of cybersafety strategies that aim to give children safe and responsible ways of using and accessing content online. This includes topics such as sexting and cyberbullying, and should be delivered through schools and youth residential settings. Collaboration between governments, industry, schools and community organisations to raise awareness of the harmful impact of porn on young people and develop appropriate policy and legislative responses to prevent this harm. Industry regulation, enforcement and internet filtering can also contribute to minimising such risks. In particular, collaboration with the Australian Council for Children and the Media, the National Commissioner for Children, the E-Safety Commissioner and more generally with other youth focused organisations and women’s health organisations is needed to develop and deliver effective public education campaigns aimed at reducing the harmful impacts of porn on children and young people. Provision of training for psychologists, youth workers, residential care staff, educators and others working with vulnerable youth to ensure they too have access to quality information about sex, and also about exploitation and abuse. Development of legislation to provide greater legal clarity and better protection for victims of revenge porn, that will make it a crime to distribute, or threaten to distribute, intimate images without consent. A requirement for industry and service providers to respond quickly to take- down requests when intimate, pornographic content has been posted without consent, and to cooperate with police investigations. A requirement for public institutions such as schools, workplaces and universities to include these behaviours in sexual harassment policies and to take complaints seriously. Strengthening of existing standards of classification, so as to reduce admissible levels of sexualised content within existing categories relating to children. Engaging young people themselves in developing initiatives to counter prevailing cultures of pornography and sexualisation. THE AUSTRALIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY LIMITED 3 RESPONDING TO THE INQUIRY Inquiry into the harm being done to Australian children through access to pornography on the internet Trends of online consumption of pornography by children Pornography is readily available on the internet, with one source estimating that 12 per cent of all websites are pornography sites and 25 per cent of all search engine requests are for pornography (English, 2005). Porn is big business. Annual US sales of pornography top $10 billion and worldwide pornography industry sales are more than Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft combined (Berman, 2011). The number of internet porn web sites has expanded from 70,000 worldwide on the web in 2001 to currently 4.2 million porn sites in the United States alone (Glass, 2014). In 1988, approximately 2,000 hardcore video titles were released, but by 2005 that number had exploded to more than 13,500 titles (Dines, Whisnant & Jensen, 2007). Now, it is virtually impossible to calculate how many titles are being released because anyone with a mobile phone could be a potential producer. Children and young people are able to access pornography whenever and wherever they want. Iphones, Ipads, laptops, tablets, gaming consoles and so on, all provide high-speed, high-quality access to the most graphic of images. Indeed, young people appear to be the main consumers of pornography, with research indicating that young males aged 12-17 years were the most frequent consumers of online pornography (Haggstrom-Nordin, Hanson & Tyden, 2005). Young men are also more likely than young women to use porn alone and in same sex groups, and to view a wider range of images. Research has shown some worrying trends, particularly related to earlier onset exposure (Kraus & Russell, 2008; Mitchell et al., 2014), with one study indicating the average age of first-time exposure to pornography was 12.2 years old (Skau, 2007). Most boys aged from the age of 13 have seen pornography online, with access at times being accidental (often through search engines) and effortless (as well as anonymous). According to some sources, the average first age of exposure to pornography is 11 years, with 100% of 15 year old males and 80% of 15 year old females reporting that they have been exposed to violent, degrading online pornography, usually before they have had a sexual experience themselves (Horvath et al, 2014). Thus pornography exposure – for young men at least – is at saturation point. At the same time that pornography has become more mainstream, much of it has also become more aggressive (Pratt, 2015). A recent content analysis of the most popular porn found that 88% of scenes included acts of physical aggression and 48% of the scenes contained verbal aggression (Horvath et al, 2014). Wosnitzer and Bridges (2007) analysed 50 randomly selected films from the top 250 grossing pornography films of 2007. They reported over 3,300 different acts of verbal and physical aggression, or an average of 11.5 acts of aggression per scene analysed. They also found that the aggression (which was mainly displayed by the men in the scenes) was responded to with either neutral or pleasure expressions by the respondents (mainly women) in over 95% of the scenes. 4 APS Submission into the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Inquiry into the harm being done to Australian children through access to pornography on the internet The following themes in contemporary porn are of great concern: Men being aggressive and in control; women being happily dominated Acts of aggression including gagging, choking and slapping, directed at women Degradation and humiliation of women Women portrayed as sex objects for men’s sexual pleasure A focus on men getting what they want, with the women there just to please the men A focus on particular types and ways of doing sex which are not reflective of what most people – particularly women – like
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